Aww! I felt so nice when I realized people voted in my poll! You do read my notes! It was my inspiration to write this chapter! That and 's plea. More at bottom.

The Heist

Angelo del Lardo. A painting of the infamous thief, Kaitou Jeanne. Tonight, a heist takes place with three thieves with the same basic objective. Steal the painting.

"Game start!"

With that, a passing by civilian would have seen the strangest sight.

Minutes before the grand heist that most of the town was gathering for, a girl leapt off a roof while her entire body morphed purple. By the time she reached the ground, she was blond instead of brunette and wearing white outfit instead of her pink shirt and jeans from just moments beforehand.

However, no one was passing by because, as said before, everyone was gathered for the heist. Only a blue-haired boy saw the miraculous feat and he looked rather bored with it.

"Jeanne! If you delay any longer, that other thief will win just because we got there late!" he called out.

"We are not going to be late to our own heist."

"If you somehow forgot, this heist is a two team show. Us against him."

"I don't see why boys have to turn things into such a competition!" she called back as she took off running.

For the unenlightened, the two are notorious, or perhaps decent, thieves. Their names are Kaitou Jeanne and Kaitou Sinbad. But, of course, you are not of the unenlightened. What may interest you is the fact that someone else was watching the exchange. Not quite so unimportant to be called a civilian. In fact, they could be quite the opposite.

Now, I did not lie to you. I don't think I am even allowed to. No one else did see the lady leap off the roof. I never said no one came after that.

"So that's Kaitou Jeanne. Interesting. Maybe tonight won't be so bad."

The figure emerged from the shadows of the building he had been so thoroughly immersed in so as to escape the notice of the two thieves. He had purple hair and what looked to be a white bunny on his shoulder.

"Let's go Wiff."

Black wings emerged from his back. He took to the skies in one flap of his wings, going in the same direction as the thieving couple. If they had looked back at that instant, they might have seen him. Only if they looked up though.

Miyako stood in front of the building. It was an unopened gallery and police were swarming. Numerous times, policemen had not recognized her and told her civilians are not allowed on the scene. She would say she was no civilian. She was the daughter of the head of the taskforce dedicated to Jeanne and now Sinbad. The policemen usually went away grumbling.

Just a little bit away, Hiwatari was having the same problem. However, he only had to glare coldly at anyone and they would swiftly back away, not even caring anymore if he was allowed there.

Although both had the same public front for being there, Miyako was there for another reason. To make sure her friends didn't get caught.

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"3...2...1... Sinbad."

"Right."

They both leapt from the tree that had been hiding them from view and onto the property. As usual, policemen were everywhere along with a few reporters who had somehow managed to get there.

They were distracted at the moment though. Dark had just appeared, soaring high above the gallery on his black wings. Everyone was either trying to get a picture of him, trying to catch him or looking out for the other two Kaitous.

Meanwhile, the other two thieves were entering the gallery while the policemen were in slight chaos.

The painting was in the main portion of the building so they only had to go through two rooms to get to it, the lobby and the guest service rooms. Then again, the police knew that too so there were probably traps as usual.

Time for the actual playing part of the game. Then, the boss.

Agile bodies ran on lithe feet through and into the guest services room. Immediately, a net tried to capture the two but…

"You think a net will work this time? Haven't we already had evidence that a net is no problem?… At least for us."

A ball come out from Jeanne's wrist and caught the net in the midsection where all the thread wrapped together. The net was diverted from its course and got tangled in itself as the thieves ran on, cursing emanating from the room they had left.

The painting was portrait size, depicting Jeanne jumping over a roof with an extremely calm expression on her face. The artist had added wings onto her back and a diamond in her right gloved hand. One could see why she was a thieving angel. The pure whiteness of her outfit added to the serene expression was the angel part but everyone knew Kaitou Jeanne looked like that and the diamond obviously did not belong to her. It just didn't fit the whole painting.

That didn't matter right then though.

"Fin, this is it?"

"Hai~!"

"Time for dramatics then. We can't leave without a show, now can we?"

"To seal the evil born in darkness, Kaitou Jeanne and Kaitou Sinbad. In the name of Kami-sama, we have appeared!"

"Jeanne! Sinbad! We'll catch you tonight! We have a special trap prepared!"

A new voice came on the scene. "You mean the metal cage? Sorry, I already disabled that. You guys really need some originality. Really, a metal cage? In what manga, or anything else for that matter, has a cage even seriously trapped the main character?"

"Dark!" called out a policeman, alerting others.

'So… This is Dark. The description matches. Especially the arrogant part,' thought Sinbad.

'There they are. Miss Jeanne, here I come.'

Dark went to hover over Kaitou Jeanne. "Well, what do we have here? A beautiful thief. You truly do deserve the name The Thief Angel."

Jeanne laughed. 'Fin is the angel and he can't even see her!'

Her laughter stunned everyone but Sinbad who began to laugh with her.

"Told you they're crazy," murmured a man on the Dark taskforce.

"Maybe that's why they can't catch them."

"I wouldn't be surprised."

"We're not crazy! Just the comment was… A coincidence," said Sinbad, immediately defending Jeanne. "We know some people that… Never mind. It is a really long story and we have something to do later so…"

"In the name of Kami-sama, you, an evil born from darkness, shall be sealed here!" Jeanne threw the pin with unerring accuracy.

"Checkmate!" The painting turned white and the chess piece seemed to float off by itself until it reached Jeanne. She grasped it and said, "Sinbad!"

"Hai." He had stood by while she did her thing this heist because it was her turn. He provided the distraction while she had an easy escape. It would be his turn the next heist. So, he turned and began taunting the police force so when he left, they would want to chase him. That was how it went. Jeanne treated them as fans and they followed. He annoyed them and they followed. The end result was the only thing that mattered. "We win again. How about that? The supposed opposition that you put up was kind of pathetic. I mean really, a net and a metal cage catching the best thieves in the world? I don't think so."

That was enough. They were so easily riled that some were already running towards him. "Jeanne. Adieu!"

Jeanne had escaped out the window by the time he was through with his goodbye. Dark had sat by, watching the scene with great interest. 'He is a decoy? Do they do this every time?' Daisuke asked mentally.

'Does it matter?' Dark answered and flew out in pursuit of Jeanne, the mysterious chess piece and wherever the painting was. They had to have some kind of trick up their sleeves to make it disappear like that and then be able to just leave.

He stole one last glance at the painting and was shocked at what he saw. The rumors were true.

It was now a painting of an angel, smiling serenely, his wings spread and black but seemingly like he was protecting something all the same. To those in the know, the painting look like Access Time. Dark was not in the know so all he saw was what he knew. All he saw was a painting replaced without someone even touching it. He had never seen an angel. And chances were he never would.

Author's Note: Wow! That's a long chapter! Even longer than the last one!

Well, by now you should know that reviews are my inspiration. I love long reviews and I am beyond happy to answer questions. So when people actually voted in my poll and sent me a PM for the next chapter, I felt obligated to write this chapter. I don't think it is very good but it has everything I wanted it to have so I guess it is fine.

My internet is being mean though and so even though I am finished right now at 7:25 PM on April 10th, 2010 I don't know when I will be able to get this up. Stupid internet.

Also, I know this isn't strictly canon since, in the manga (can't remember about the anime, probably doesn't happen), -*Spoiler If You Haven't Completed The Manga*- Fin dies and Access decides to get enough power to reincarnate with her -*End Spoiler*- but I think it is fine.

Ja ne!

~J. DCF